The United Nations Association of Africa (UNAA) Director of Peace, Security and Conflict Prevention, Ambassador Victor Asije has appealed to world leaders to urgently begin to selflessly,and sincerely rededicate themselves to ending all forms of social injustices.
Asije, who made the appeal in a message to mark this year’s World Day of Social Justice, said that there were increasing cases of underreported, and undocumented social injustices in relationships, families, communities, private and public organisations in different nations of the world.
The Ambassador said that the much clamoured justice, mutual understanding, and global peace would be achieved only when all forms of social injustices were decisively dealt with.
“As the world, today, celebrates this year’s World Day of Social Justice, I will like to humbly and respectfully appeal to all world leaders,to urgently redouble their interventions against all forms of social injustices.
“As much as I would appreciate what the world leaders have been doing to ensure social justice at homes, schools, workplaces, public places, public, private and religious organisations, they need to evolve more implementable, and practicable measures to laying all forms of injustices to rest globally.
“With many forms of social injustices still waxing stronger, and stronger at different places of human encounters, and engagements today, the ongoing global peace!, peace!! evangelism would continue to gasp for breath,” he said.
The UNAA Director of Peace, Security and Conflict Prevention said that he particularly delighted in making appeals to world leaders, because of their positions, influence, and interconnectedness in addressing local, national, continental and global challenges.
The global peace advocate also enjoined world leaders to devote more resources to their relevant ministries, parastatals, and departments for fighting all forms of social injustices.
The Ambassador added that it was vitally important for world leaders to establish more active public complaint offices, for people that had, and would suffer any of social injustice.
“To be quite frank with us all, thousands and thousands of people of the world are daily, silently, going through one form of social injustice or another. 7And these ugly developments are either uninvestigated or underreported.
“So I still want to appeal to all world leaders and others, to urgently step in, and brace up against all forms of social injustices.
“Unequal access to rights, opportunities, resources, education, healthcare, problems of unemployment, poverty, migration, statelessness, and gender inequality, sexual abuse, ethnic and racial discrimination, terrorism, hostage-taking, kidnapping, religious attacks, bullying, unholy alliances, nuclear weapon threats, hate speeches, environmental abuse,and others are today crying for more attention,” he further said.
Asije noted that social injustices was mostly responsible for the epileptic peace in homes, between homes,between communities, between organisations, and between different nations of the world.
The Ambassador that it was imperative for world leaders to shun personal, and political misunderstandings, biases and prejudices, and begin to work more cooperatively at making the world a better,and peaceable place for all humanity.
Asije, who described the theme of this year’s World Day of Social Justice,”Social Protection and Decent Work for All” as timely, also called on world leaders to create more job opportunities for employable men, women, boys, and girls globally.
According to him, the World Day of Social Justice is an international day recognising the need to promote social justice in different areas of human encounters and engagements.
“We all must hold dearly to the ideals of the World Day of Social Justice, and redirect our energies toward ending all forms of social injustices anywhere,at any anytime.
“We must know that because we all live in an interconnected and interdependent world,an injustice to one, is an injustice to all. What the world needs now, and most urgently at that, is the refrain of the restorative word, peace! peace! and peace!” the Ambassador said.